From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37461 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steffen Wolfrum Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Gentium Basic/Book Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:01:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7871fcf50711191004u2d74ec4er5dd75ac0a7174a03@mail.gmail.com> <7871fcf50711191357s3d050ea8x6a05d2bcca6dc007@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00711191657l43567a43n7a1ca8c50a73cfe1@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195729407 12241 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2007 11:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:03:27 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 22 12:03:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iv9qH-0001jR-1V for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:03:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5EC71FCAA; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:03:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02319-01-4; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:02:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E691FC72; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:02:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C5C1FC72 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:02:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27286-02-5 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:02:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtprelay12.ispgateway.de (smtprelay12.ispgateway.de [80.67.29.29]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCF31FC6B for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:02:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 3691 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2007 11:01:53 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.2]) (698580@[89.247.5.78]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay12.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Nov 2007 11:01:53 -0000 In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00711191657l43567a43n7a1ca8c50a73cfe1@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37461 Archived-At: Hi Mojca, I tried your example below and struggled in path error: %\starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic] %\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasic] [file:GenBasR] [features=default] %\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicItalic] [file:GenBasI] [features=default] %\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBold] [file:GenBasB] [features=default] %\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBoldItalic][file:GenBasBI] [features=default] %\stoptypescript %\starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic][name] %\definefontsynonym[Serif] [GentiumBasic] %\definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [GentiumBasicItalic] %\definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [GentiumBasicBold] %\definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic] %\stoptypescript %\definetypeface[mygentium][rm][serif][gentium-basic][default] %\setupbodyfont[mygentium,36pt] \font\rom="Gentium Basic" at 36pt \starttext Test WQG 0196 \rom Test WQG 0196 \stoptext Doing it like this works OK. But uncommenting the lines above ends up in ... kpathsea: Running mktexmf GenBasR ! I can't find file `GenBasR'. But isn't it the same font/file adressed in both cases? (sorry, I am an absolute beginner in xetex) Yours, Steffen Am 20.11.2007 um 01:57 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > On 11/19/07, Joel C. Salomon wrote: >> Guess I asked for too much at once. >> >> I've downloaded the Gentium Basic/Basic Book set of fonts from >> , and I'd like to use them with >> ConTeXt. I ran texfont (with the command line texfont >> --fontroot=c:\users\chesky\programs\context\tex\texmf-local >> --sourcepath=... --vendor=sil --collection=gentium --makepath >> --install), and now running texexec on the newly generated >> texnansi-sil-gentium.tex produces some sort of glyph list. > > Rather than using texfont (half-broken anyway), use XeTeX or LuaTeX. > > (If you're using MikTeX and are willing to upgrade to MikTeX 2.7, you > can process your documents with "texexec --xtx filename"; if you're > using the standalone ConTeXt, you can process it with "--xtx" or > "--lua".) > > Depending on whether you want to install those fonts or keep them in > the tree there are slightly different approaches, but this should work > for both LuTeX and XeTeX if you keep your files in the working > directory or in texmf/fonts/opentype/...[somewhere here]... > > \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic] > \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasic] [file:GenBasR] > [features=default] > \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicItalic] [file:GenBasI] > [features=default] > \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBold] [file:GenBasB] > [features=default] > \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBoldItalic][file:GenBasBI] > [features=default] > \stoptypescript > > \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic][name] > \definefontsynonym[Serif] [GentiumBasic] > \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [GentiumBasicItalic] > \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [GentiumBasicBold] > \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic] > \stoptypescript > > \definetypeface[mygentium][rm][serif][gentium-basic][default] > > \setupbodyfont[mygentium,13pt] > > > I don't know how you plan to mix those fonts, but "reverting to > another typeface in case a glyph is missing" is a bad idea in this > particular case, at least in my opinion (although it's conditionally > doable) - how are you going to handle missing characters in bold > typeface? > > One possibility would be to use: > - Gentium for Roman & Italic > - Gentium Basic for Bold & Bold Italic (and hope that you won't need > any special characters for titles) > > Mojca > ______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ > ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________